Project Brief: Finding out Taiwanese cultural identity part 2

For my project, I will review the history of Taiwan and find out who are Taiwanese people. Secondly I will do more research on Taiwan’s culture and art to find out what is Taiwan made of. Also, I will look more how Taiwan and other countries promote themselves on their official tourism site and what messages and images they sent out to other countries. Then I will start looking for the graphic design and product design which considered typical enough to presentTaiwan and identify how Taiwan being represent now. Next, a little, unofficial on-line survey will be posted on my Facebook page and Msn. The reason why chose Facebook is I have 471 friends on my Facebook and 3/2 of them are Taiwanese. Facebook allows open discussion. I found it’s a perfect form for me to do my mini survey. After collect all the information, I will start designing, it could be a product or a logo or a graphic design.

Fallowing is part 2 timeline of Taiwan.

Economic Miracle

1958 Sep 11, Responding to Communist China's artillery attacks on the Taiwan-

held islands of Quemoy and Matsu, President Eisenhower said in a broadcast address the US had to be prepared to fight to prevent a communist takeover of the islands.

1960 Jun 4, The Taiwan island of Quemoy was hit by 500 artillery shells fired from t

he coast of Communist China.

1965 A museum in the style of the Ming and Qing palaces was built on a hillside outside Taipei to house the treasures of the Forbidden City. The National Palace Museum

, Taipei, possessed 80,000 art objects.

1969 Mar 20, Senator Edward Kennedy called on the U.S. to close all bases in Taiwan.

Speedy Democratization

1971 Nov 23, The People's Republic of China was seated in the U.N. Security Council.1971 Oct 25, The UN General Assembly voted to admit the People’s Republic of China and expel Nationalist China (Taiwan).

1972 In Taiwan Giant Manufacturing began producing bicycles for foreign and domestic buyers. By 2008 it was the world’s largest bicycle maker.

1975 Apr 5, Chiang Kai-shek, Chinese statesman and president of the Republic

(1943-1950) and President of the Republic of China, Taiwan

1978 Dec 15, President Carter announced he would grant diplomatic recognition to the People’s Republic of China, i.e. Communist China, on New Year's Day and sever official relations with the Republic of China (Taiwan).

1978 Dec 31, Taiwanese diplomats struck their colors for the final time from the e

mbassy flagpole in Washington, marking the end of diplomatic relations with the U

nited States.

1979 Apr 10, The US Government established the Taiwan Relations Act which said: "to make clear that the US decision to establish diplomatic relations with the People's Republic of China rests upon the expectation that the future of Taiwan will be determined by peaceful means."

1982 Jan 11, The Reagan Administration announced that it will continue to help Taiwan produce F-5E fighter planes, but will not sell more advanced models.

1982 Jul 14, The US made assurances to Taiwan regarding arms sales.

1983 May 10, Dominica PM Dame Eugenia Charles chose to support Taiwan out of political conviction

1986 Taiwan’s Pres. Chiang Ching-kuo, the son of Chiang Kai-shek, decided to open up the political life with Democratic reforms.

1986 The Democratic Progressive Party was established in opposition to th

e Nationalist Party and advocated formal independence from China.

1988 Jan 13, Lee Teng-hui became president of Taiwan, the first Taiwan-born head-of-state, following the death of President Chiang Ching-kuo. Lee Teng-hui authorized the establishment of the separatist Democratic Progressive party (DPP).

1988 Hon Hai, a small Taiwanese plastics manufacturer, opened a factory in Shenzhen, China. By 2009 it had grown to the size of a city with over a quarter

of a million employees.

1993 The Taiwanese film "The Wedding Banquet" was directed by Ang Lee.

1994 Aug, The New Party was established by former KMT legislators who refused to accept Taiwanese separatism.

Presidential Election

1996 Mar 23, The first free presidential elections were planned. Lee Teng-hui had a landslide victory.

1997 Apr, The Taiwanese drama film “The River” was shown at the SF Film Festival.

1997 Jun 5, The Taiwan film “Mahjong” by Edward Yang was an Int’l. film festival award winner.

1997 Jul 5, It was reported that the ruling party and the opposition pro-independen

ce party had joined behind a plan to change the constitution and scrap the provincial government, a vestige of an old arrangement that considered Taiwan a part of China.

1997 Nov 29, The Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) won 12 of 23 mayoral and county seats and for the first time received more votes than the Nationalist Party.

1997 Dec 30, South Africa established diplomatic ties with China and ended formal ties with Taiwan.

1998 Jan 12, Former US Senator Robert Dole signed a $30,000 per month contract as a foreign agent for Taiwan.

1998 Oct 14, China and Taiwan held their first talks since 1993 and said they were working toward reunification.

1998 The film “Han Chee” (Sweet Potato) by Jean Cheng was a video essay on Taiwanese history.

1999 Feb 9, China severed relations with Macedonia after the government in Skopje recognized Taiwan.

1999 Apr 29, The US decided to sell an early-warning radar system to Taiwan.

2000 Feb 1, US House members voted to strengthen military ties with Taiwan with a 341-70 vote in favor of the Taiwan Security Enhancement Act.

2000 Feb 21, China warned Taiwan that a prolonged lack of negotiations could provoke a military attack.

2000 Mar 21, The Parliament ended a 51-year-old ban on direct trade, transport and postal links between several of its offshore islands and mainland China.

2000 Aug 14, Pres. Chen Shui-bian arrived in Los Angeles to begin a 2-week trip to strengthen ties with some of the 29 small nations that still support diplomatic relations.

2000 Sep 29, A US AM-RAAM missile sale to Taiwan was designed so that delivery would not occur unless China threatened an attack.

2001 Apr 24, Pres. Bush said that the annual process of selling arms to Taiwan, a US policy since 1982, would end. China condemned the recent $5 billion arms sale.

2001 Apr 25, In unusually blunt terms, President Bush warned China that an attack on Taiwan could provoke a U.S. military response.

2001 Nov 11, Taiwan officially joined the WTO after ministers in Qatar approved its membership.

2001 Nov 23, Taiwan announced that it would allow Chinese living abroad to visit as tourists. This relaxed a 50-year ban intended to keep out spies from the Chinese mainland.

2001 Acer, a Taiwan computer maker, spun off BenQ, a maker of LCD monitors.

http://members.shaw.ca/leksu/mainp14e.htm

Consumerism and Culture

If you have 10 minutes, watch the video. Interesting points.

www.pondaray.com/blog/consumerisms-new-cool-heirloom-culture/

thinking about heirlooms

an interesting perspective on heirlooms:

opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/07/12/how-to-lose-a-legacy/

twitter & facebook as a daily newspaper

interesting connection between the new and the old (or the new, and the new version of the old):

paper.li/

Great Infographics!

Albeit depressing/politically charged/lefty leaning.http://motherjones.com/politics/2011/02/income-inequality-in-america-chart-graph

Project Brief: Repurposing visual communications tools to tell new stories, or to tell old stories better.

What is a story?

A lesson, a teaching

An investigation

A meeting, a conversation

A mourning, a warning

An unloading

A sharing, a making of meaning

How is this like that?

How is a newspaper like a book?

How is a journal like television?

How is twitter like a newspaper?

How is a book like a journal?

How is a book like a cave painting?

How is a newspaper like a journal?

How is facebook like a book?

How is a book like a website?

How is a website like a book?

How is a book like a tweet?

How is television like a book?

How is a website like television?

How is television like a tweet?

For this project, I will review historical and contemporary methods of visual communication in a broad audit, and will investigate the repurposing of these methods of communication to serve new needs and tell new stories—as well as to inspire the development of new methods of visual communication to serve old needs and tell old stories, better.

I will communicate this information both in written form and as a visual display exploring and analyzing my research. I will also develop a new communicative repurposing of an old tool, and will insert it into the created framework of new and repurposed visual communications tools.

This research and analysis can take the form of pages, as in a book/e-book, which will introduce graphics as characters that will then come together in a comprehensive map/diagram. The completion of this diagram has the potential to reveal interesting information about which communications tools have lasting impact and efficacy, which tools will change, which tools will continue to take on new life.

Project Brief: Finding out Taiwanese cultural identity

This project is aimed to find out Taiwanese Identity. Fist of all, despite all political issues, the major question is: how is Taiwan became Taiwan? Who are Taiwanese people? Tracing back the history of Taiwan, since the early 17th century, Taiwan had been colonized by six foreign colonialist regimes consecutively. The definition of Taiwanese identity has been an ongoing issue for several decades arising from the political rivalry between the Republic of China (ROC) and the People's Republic of China (PRC). Taiwanese are frustrated by the political rivalry which is the cause of confusion both inside and outside Taiwan. After six decades of separation from the mainland, the majority of Taiwanese today seem to have a different interpretation of the name ROC.

Step 1. The timeline of Taiwan (Part 1 8000BC~1957)

Pirates and Aborigines

8000BC Asian peoples settled the island of Taiwan about this time. There were only a small number of Han immigrants and Malaya-Polynesian aborigines who had dwelt on Taiwan for many thousands of years. All the aborigines are Malaya-Polynesian, however, they do not belong to same race. Beside the nine tribes of Atayal, Saisiyat, Tsou, Bunun, Rukai, Paiwan, Ami, Puyuma, Yami, there are Ketagalan, Luilang, Kavalan, Taokas, Pazeh Papora, Babuza, Hoanya, and Siraya, who are commonly called the "flatland aborigines". These aborigines have their different languages and customs, and constitute unique independent societies.

1517 Portuguese sailors named Ilha Formosa (beautiful island), later known as Taiwan.

The Dutch Era

1603 The Dutch fleet sailed toward the Pescadores of Taiwan Straits, and landed on the main island Penghu. This was the first time that Western European power ever set foot on the land of Taiwan.

1622 The Dutch made another attempt on Penghu Island and finally succeeded in occupying it.

1626 May 5, a Spanish fleet, detoured eastern Taiwan coast in order to avoid clashing with the Dutch, reached the northeast tip of Taiwan and named it the Cape of San Diego.

The Era of Cheng Ch'eng-kung (Ming) and Ching

1661 Apr 29, Chinese Ming dynasty occupied Taiwan.

1683 Taiwan was claimed by China's Manchu dynasty after large-scale immigration from the Chinese mainland to the island.

The Era of Japan

1879 Taiwanese residents to choose nationality, deadline on May 8.

1895 May 8, China ceded Taiwan to Japan under the Apr 17 Treaty of Shimonoseki. This followed a war over control of the Korean peninsula. Japanese occupation ended in 1945.

1945 Oct 25, Japanese surrendered Taiwan to Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek. The island was returned to Chinese control following the Japanese occupation during WW II.

The Era of Chiang Kai-shek

1947 Feb 28, There was an anti-Kuomintang demonstration on Taiwan. As many as 20,000 civilians were massacred by the Kuomintang (KMT).

1949 Sep 21, The Communist People’s Republic of China was proclaimed under Mao Tse Tung with Chou En-Lai as Premier.

1949 Oct 1, Republic of China (Taiwan) was formed on island of Formosa. The Nationalists under Chiang Kai-shek had been defeated and fled to Taiwan and took control. Chiang Kai-shek established the “temporary” government of the Republic of China in Taipei and established martial law.

1949 Dec 7, The Nationalist Chinese government escaped to Formosa.

1949 Dec 8, The Chinese Nationalist government moved from the Chinese mainland to Formosa as the Communists pressed their attacks.

1949-1987 The Kuomintang (KMT) ruled Taiwan under martial law during this period.

1950 Mar 1, Chiang Kai-shek resumed the presidency of Nationalist China in Taipei.

1951 U.S. aid to Nationalist China, now on Taiwan, is resumed. The American M.A.A.G.(Military Assistance and Advisory Group) begin operation in Taiwan.

1953 Jan 30, President Dwight Eisenhower announced that he would pull the Seventh Fleet out of Formosa to permit the Nationalists to attack Communist China.

1957 May 24, Anti-American rioting broke out in Taipei, Taiwan.

1957 Paraguay began receiving economic support from Taiwan in exchange for supporting Taiwan at the UN.

References from:

http://members.shaw.ca/wchen88/intro.htm (video)

http://69.89.31.55/~taiwandn/ChinesePage.htm

http://members.shaw.ca/leksu/mainp1e.htm

http://timelines.ws/countries/TAIWAN.HTML